We are pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB SEO Premod 3.0.6 package, Golden GYM & Related edition.

This release update the premod to phpBB3.0.6 and the phpBB SEO mod rewrites to the last version (0.6.2).The premod as well includes updated versions of the zero duplicate mod, no duplicate mod and Dynamitc meta tag, all these are soon to be separately released.

This version introduces a new powerful features such as ACP settings for meta tags and optimal titles or open external links in new window. It introduces as well the Canonical element on all pages supported by the zero duplicate.GYM is turning Gold (2.0.0) with support for authorizations in sitemaps!

And last but not least, we included our yet to be released phpBB SEO Related topics mod. It has its own section in the ACP extended settings where you can activate and tune it. It supports Mysql FullTex (mysql >=4.1 using Myisam, auto detected) and SQL Like matching for others, and has common words filtering abilities.

If you are updating, you should try the new captchas and stat using the one you prefer, they are way more efficient to fight against automated registration than the previous.In all cases, you now need to wonder about the new caching possibilities, eaccelerator or APC will for example be a lot faster than the default file system one if they are available, worth to check.The setup is done in config.php :

But do not switch unless you're sure about the availability of the required package on your server.

Minimum RequirementsphpBB3 has a few requirements which must be met before you are able to install and use it.

A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System with support for PHP

A SQL database system, one of:

MySQL 3.23 or above (MySQLi supported)

PostgreSQL 7.3+

SQLite 2.8.2+

Firebird 2.1+

MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)

Oracle

PHP 4.3.3+ (>=4.3.3, >4.4.x, >5.x.x, >6.0-dev (compatible)) with support for the database you intend to use.

getimagesize() function need to be enabled

These optional presence of the following modules within PHP will provide access to additional features, but they are not required.

zlib Compression support

Remote FTP support

XML support

Imagemagick support

GD Support

The presence of each of these optional modules will be checked during the installation process.The mod_rewrite Apache module will be necessary to use url rewriting. It is though possible to adapt the rewriterules for isap_rewrite on IIS servers (windows).

This update will not change any of your current URL settings, but it will add some new one,

You WILL have to update you .htaccess once done,

Once you will have updated, you will have to refresh your theme's cache as well as phpBB's cache (ACP => STYLE, Themes => Refresh).

GYM Sitemap & RSS

GYM update process is now included in the auto update package and will handle all the required code changes for the premod files, but you WILL have to run the gym_sitemaps/gym_install.php script in update mode after you updated phpBB. If you do not use GYM, it is still wize to keep the file up to date, if you have deleted them, just ignore the GYM file update.

IMPORTANT :GYM sitemaps and RSS is likely to be updated before the premod, it will be up to you to keep it up to date meanwhile, you can be notified about updates by subscribing to the release thread while logged in : GYM Sitemaps & RSS module 2.0.0

The new level of organization we've reached last summer helped a lot here (we're now running our redmine + svn server, which should turn public pretty soon). For the first time, all RCs where merged in the trunk which made the final update (from RC4 to 3.0.6) faster.

But one week will always stay the "range" since we need few days to have the team work on it each time.

Unfortunately, a late bug and a glitch have been found. They most likely did not cause any trouble at all, but are now both fixed in current release. If you downloaded the package (full and / or update one) before this post was sent, you should perform these two small changes :Open :